Effects of Personality Traits of Employees on the Resistance to Organizational Change with the mediating variable of Psychological Contract Case study: (Police Force Command of KHORAMABAD)

For every organizational change, there are always traces of resistance. Commitment, satisfaction, and acceptance of changes by employees mainly depend on their personality traits. Therefore, the present study deals with the effects of personality traits of employees on their resistance to organizational change, with the mediating variable being the role of psychological contract.The present study is an applied-descriptive survey. The statistical society consists of all the personnel of KHORAMABAD Police Force. The random sampling method was used. To collect data, the standard NEO-FFI questionnaire was used and 141 participants filled out the questionnaire. To test the research hypotheses, the structural equation modeling was performed by means of the SMART-PLS software. Results of the present study show that the personality traits can affect the employees' readiness for change, up to 36%; the personality traits can affect the psychological contract up to 53%; the psychological contract can affect the employees' readiness for change up to 83%; and finally, the psychological contract, as the mediator, can pave the way for the personality traits of the employees to prepare for change with a probability of 44%.The psychological contract can increase the relationship between the personnel traits of the police force employees and their readiness for the organizational change.